FF13 Main Quest will be 50 - 60 HOURS LONG.....long enough for you FF fans?

[Riachu]

Soriku said:

g-value said:
Holy sh*t, Toriyama (FF13's directer) says that even if the other characters are alive, if the party leader (the character you are controlling) dies in a battle, you get a Game Over. Oh man, its going to be P3 all over again.

Uh oh. Somebody kill this mechanic. Kill it with fire. It's annoying in KH, it's annoying in Persona...don't bring it into more series.

But the heal HP after every battle thing is a feature more RPGs should have. This gives them an excuse to up difficulty too.

This is a great feature.  FFXIII will be the first well reviewed JRPG to use this mechanic.  We won't be wasting MP and it will balance out the difficulty since FFXIII is suppose to be harder than previous games in the series.  I cannot tell you how useful this mechanic would have been in FFXII.  It is similar to another mechanic in Dragon Age Origins where your characters will gain back HP if you stand around without doing anything.